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<h2>Acknowledgments</h2>

<p>Firstly, thanks to the entire Go community. An active and responsive community ensured this book was finished on time.</p>

<p>Specially, I want to give thanks to the following people who helped me understand some details in the official standard compiler and runtime implementations: Keith Randall, Ian Lance Taylor, Axel Wagner, Cuong Manh Le, Michael Pratt, Jan Mercl, Matthew Dempsky, Martin Möhrmann, etc. I'm sorry if I forgot mentioning somebody in the above list. There are so many kind and creative gophers in the Go community that I must have missed out on someone.</p>

<p>I also would like to thank all gophers who ever made influences on this book, be it directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally.</p>

<p>Thanks to Olexandr Shalakhin for the permission to use one of <a href="https://github.com/shalakhin/gophericons">the wonderful gopher icon designs</a> as the cover image. And thanks to Renee French for designing <a href="https://reneefrench.blogspot.com/">the lovely gopher cartoon character</a>.</p>

<p>Thanks to the authors of the following open source software and libraries used in building this book:</p>

<ul>
<li>golang, <a href="https://go.dev/">https://go.dev/</a></li>
<li>gomarkdown, <a href="https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown">https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown</a></li>
<li>goini, <a href="https://github.com/zieckey/goini">https://github.com/zieckey/goini</a></li>
<li>go-epub, <a href="https://github.com/bmaupin/go-epub">https://github.com/bmaupin/go-epub</a></li>
<li>pandoc, <a href="https://pandoc.org">https://pandoc.org</a></li>
<li>calibre, <a href="https://calibre-ebook.com/">https://calibre-ebook.com/</a></li>
<li>GIMP, <a href="https://www.gimp.org">https://www.gimp.org</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Thanks the gophers who ever reported mistakes in this book or made corrections for this book:
yingzewen,
ivanburak,
cortes-,
skeeto@reddit,
Yang Yang,
DashJay,
Stephan,
etc.</p>
